The early days of the individual databases of the Terezín Memorial date back to the year 1998. At that time, the employees of the Memorial´s Department of History got down to compiling the first database containing data on the former inmates of the Gestapo Police Prison Terezín.[1] The process of digitizing the collections got under […]
Newsletter 3/2021
Hana Reinerová
Hana Reinerová, an accomplished translator from Bulgarian into Czech, whose birth centenary was marked on April 19, 2021, figured among the outstanding personalities of the Czech cultural community who had passed through the wartime Terezín Ghetto. She was born in Benešov near Prague as Hana Steinerová, but her family had lived in Bulgaria since the […]
Webinar Love in the Terezín Ghetto
Since the end of 2020 the Terezín Memorial´s offer of online educational programs for schools has featured a new workshop called Love in the Terezín Ghetto. Its key purpose is to acquaint schoolchildren and youth with the ruthless Holocaust machinery and the life of the Terezín Ghetto inmates, as seen through their romantic relationships and […]
A decorative box made by Milena Jesenská
From the Collections of the Terezín Memorial Milena Jesenská was born to her mother Milena, née Hejzlarová, and father Jan Jesenský in Prague on August 10, 1896. She attended the Minerva high school for girls and after graduation she followed her father´s wish and began studying medicine at Charles University. But a year later she […]
